Other HN users keep telling us that we should support dense housing development. I think those people have never lived in an apartment complex with trashy neighbors.
All the apartments were separated by brick or concrete, the front doors had lobbies that acted as baffles, and all the living areas were carpeted and had good thick ceilings.
Other places, you can follow conversations through the wall if you're attentive and they're raising their voices.
I used to think living in a new building would be insurance enough. According to a colleague who lives in an apartment built in the 2010s, it's not.
For reference, this is in Paris, where there were laws passed in the 2000s supposed to enforce soundproofing in new developments.
just make the damn building with noise in mind (RC, interior insulation, gapped flooring, etc).
it’s very possible.
(btw I am as country bumpkin as they come, my village has less than 200 people so i understand rural living.)
How to live like a king.
Putting material like rockwool in the dead spaces can make an incredible difference in acoustic performance.
Their heavy equipment doesn't have those backup beepers.
I watched a construction site and all I heard were the well-muffled excavators grunting a little to move their hydraulic arms.
Ironically all of my noise worries these days do not come from my multi tenant development but the neighboring single occupancy houses that have parties in their yards.
If people want to live in a shoebox surrounded by thousands of other people in a shoebox, I wont stop them but I"m not going to normalize it either.